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> to use the same style with shootings would be risible e.g. "multiple bullets hit man resisting arrest". Except that media use a different, equally bad constr
by cratermoon 3y ago
> to use the same style with shootings would be risible e.g. "multiple bullets hit man resisting arrest".
Except that media use a different, equally bad construction. The so-called "cop-speak". <https://fair.org/home/copspeak-7-ways-journalists-use-police-jargon-to-obscure-the-truth/ https://fair.org/home/copspeak-7-ways-journalists-use-police...>
- denton-scratch 3y ago> Suspect/subject Those aren't the same. A suspect is someone who has been charged, or who is being questioned under caution, because he might be charged. The example given was of a man arrested for possessing a knife - therefore a suspect - who was shot by police. Since a policeman shooting a civilian isn't usually charged or cautioned on the spot, it's not surprising that there is no suspect in the shooting case.
- cratermoon 3y agoYou left out the part that said, "an arrest prosecutors later deemed “illegal”". He wasn't a suspect, he was profiled and murdered by the cops.